A resolution appears to be nearing in one of the rare murder cases pending in Windham County — a Dayville woman charged in the 2010 death of her young son.

A teary-eyed Melissa O’Connor, 25, made a seconds-long appearance Friday in Danielson Superior Court. Defense attorney Ernest Green said a judicial pretrial meeting with Judge Michael E. Riley was held on Tuesday. Typically, the closed-door meetings are where an offer is made to settle the case short of trial.

Green said only that he agreed that O’Connor’s next scheduled court appearance on Sept. 14 would be a so-called “accept or reject date for the indicated disposition.” O’Connor, who would face 60 years in prison if convicted of murder, is expected to take the next month and a half to mull her decision on the undisclosed offer.

Prosecutor Matthew Crockett declined to comment.

O’Connor had been in prison since April 16, 2010, a day after state police and emergency medical personnel were called to her home at 826E Hartford Pike in Dayville for reports of an unresponsive infant. Police said her son, 10-month-old Bryce O’Connor, was rushed to Day Kimball Hospital in Putnam, where he was pronounced deceased an hour later.

The state Office of the Chief Medical Examiner ruled the death a homicide caused by blunt head trauma. O’Connor was charged with murder, first-degree assault, first-degree strangulation and risk of injury to a minor.

File sealed

The charges are the only indication of what occurred at O’Connor’s home on the day her child died. O’Connor’s court file has remained sealed and access to the file has been denied, apparently by a court order. The reason for the sealing has not been explained.

Several past court appearances by O’Connor have included discussions about ongoing psychological

evaluations.

O’Connor remains held on $1 million bail at York Correctional Institution Niantic, the state’s only woman’s prison.